Summer @ The Well: Kulturally LIT

Closed for the summer!? Hardly! Announcing Summer @ The Well, a series of monthly chill nights in our on-site pub, complete with live music, beer, wine, and our signature fare. For August we've teamed up with Kulturally LIT to feature music by the Wes Lewis Quartet and spoken word by Yex.

Join the Hundred Years of Baldwin Bookclub with Possible Futures and Kulturally LIT on Thursday, August 15, then celebrate Summer @ The Well: Kulturally LIT at the Schwarzman Center on Thursday, August 22.

Although registration is not required for this event, those who register in advance will get a combo deal—Bavarian Pretzel Bites with a choice of Diel de Diel Pinot Gris or Devil’s Purse Kolsch for only $11.99*!

*Offer subject to availability and substitution. Limit one (1) per customer. Cannot be combined with any other offers.

Wes Lewis Quartet

Wes Lewis on saxophone, Derek Lewis on keyboard, Zwelakhe-Duma Bell le Pere on bass, and Jonathan Barber on drums.

Performing three sets:

• 6:00pm-7:00pm
• 8:00pm-9:00pm
• 9:30pm-10:30pm

For their performance at The Well, the Wes Lewis Quartet will feature a variety of compositions assembled to reflect the emotions and thematic elements of James Baldwin’s works while taking inspiration from others who have pored over and captured the sensibility of his writings, including Mechelle Ndegeocello, Jamila Woods, and others.  

Wes Lewis is a saxophonist, composer, and PhD candidate in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Yale. He performs with the Yale Jazz Ensemble, the collective Trance Macabre, and as a leader of his own group. Along with roots in straight-ahead and big band jazz, Wes’ compositions often take rhythmic and harmonic cues from R&B, pop, and neo soul. Wes also founded the New Haven Composers Spotlight and is currently an Artist Corps grantee. 

LEARN MORE about Wes Lewis

@radicaltones on Instagram

Yex

Spoken Word 

Performing two 15-minute sets: 

• Between 8:00pm and 9:00pm 
• Between 9:30pm and 10:30pm

Yexandra “Yex” Diaz is an Afro-Boriken interdisciplinary artist skilled in Spoken Word & Bomba. Former International Festival for Arts & Ideas Adult Slam Champion, Yex has been a Resident Creative Writing Instructor for both Trinity College and Common Ground High School five years counting. She is a current Mentor for the New Haven ArtistCorps and Facilitator with the CT Office of the Arts, focused on bolstering the creative economy. She has opened up for the likes of artists such as 2x Grammy Award Winner J. Ivy and The Last Poets. She has graced many stages including Jamaica Performing Arts Center for a Def Poetry Jam Reunion, Long Wharf Theatre for a production titled Yerba Bruja and most recently The Shubert Theatre for both a solo poetry set and collective bomba performance as a part of the Elm City’s Finest Showcase. At her core, Yex is a social justice oriented community leader who serves as a Culture Bearer, Interdisciplinary Doula and Educator, utilizing her voice and body as an instrument to highlight, heal and honor oppression by evoking radical spiritualism to uplift afro-indigenous storytelling.

@yasss_yex  on Instagram